Hello everyone. This is the game podcast from The Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer.

Thank you so much for joining us in what is a very difficult time for everyone.

We are continuing to social distance here on the

podcast. So in East London is Gregor Robertson who joins us as does Matt Dickinson

from Southwest London. Matt and Gregor, how are you both doing?

Matt, how are you doing first?

Yeah, I'm staying sane, but then I keep having to remind myself I'm about a week into this.

Yes, but we're, no, trying to stay active, trying to keep, um, level headed.

When you say keep active, what you're doing?

Well, I, um, bought some, the last thing I bought before lockdown started were a couple of dumbells.

I've got two teenage sons who got a lot of energy to burn off.

So we're trying to we're trying to we try and have a little family weight session a day

I don't mean there's any danger of me turning into Arnold Schwarzenegger but at least it

gives us a little something to do a bit of focus to the day and I just think these you know you got to take what you can out of these things and I'm doing something with my kids that I wasn't doing you know two weeks ago and we've never done before so take

take the little gains where you can I see yeah absolutely I don't know if you're

aware of this map but Gregor has enlisted himself in a press-up challenge so the

question is Gregor how are you getting on?

I really wish you weren't going to ask you that.

I'm slacking.

Yeah, I gotta have to.

I'm slacking.

I mean, if I tell you that I ordered a cocktail making set at the weekend,

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